Microsoft engineer Sean James is dwarfed by the superstructure frame that supports servers on the bottom and European-made fuel cells on top at a building in Sodo. The company hopes to begin testing soon using natural-gas-powered fuel cells to power data centers. (Ken Lambert/Seattle Times/TNS)
SEATTLE: In an industrial space tucked off a side street in Seattle's Sodo District, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the datacentre.
Twenty racks of servers sit in a stark, white, well-lit room _ a familiar setup for anyone who's visited one of the datacentres that make up the humming infrastructure powering the Internet.
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